Name: LIVING WITH DEPRESSION
Uploaded: 2017-03-31T17:20:38.000Z
Duration: 3 min 23 s
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At the very beginning you struggle with the little things, but you usually choose to ignore them.

Future simple

It's like a headache. You'll tell yourself it's temporary and it'll pass.

But it's not. You're stuck in this state of mind.

You get used to putting on a social mask and you continue to live among other people,

because that's what you have to do. That's what others do.

And that's when you slowly start to back away from friends and family,

The old things that used to bring you joy are now worthless.

That is why you lack motivation. Now... why would you keep on trying if nothing makes you happy anyway.

All of this makes you feel even worse and you get caught up in a vicious circle.

Suddenly you find yourself living in slow motion.

Just white noise, just heaviness, filling your mind and spilling over your body.

You feel as though you'll never be happy again.

You continue to back away and destroy relationships.

You're ashamed for everything you've done and everything you haven't.

There is a part of you that wants to make things right.

A sudden positive upsurge makes you want to go out and meet people

but it's all very short-lived because you know it won't work anyway.

Things that make your friends excited leave you indifferent

and you become aware of the huge gap that lies between you.

so in the end you choose to be alone in your comfort zone where no one asks any questions.

The low self esteem and the lack of purpose become unbearable.

You finally realize you can't go on that way and two things can happen:

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LIVING WITH DEPRESSION

stick

struggle

depression

positive